Last updated: September 27, 2026 · Licensor: Andrew McGraw, an individual ("we", "us")
By installing or using Streamwreck (the "Software"), you ("you") agree to this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not install or use the Software.
The Software deliberately produces flashing, strobing, high-contrast and rapidly-changing full-screen imagery. Built-in effects include, among others, full-screen white flashes ("flashbang"), sustained strobes, rotating colored lights ("disco"), screen tearing and shaking, and red-alert pulses.
A small percentage of people may experience epileptic seizures or blackouts when exposed to flashing lights or light patterns, including people with no history of seizures or epilepsy.
You assume all risk arising from flashing imagery produced by the Software, both for yourself and for anyone to whom you broadcast it.
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to purchase a license. If you are younger than that but at least 13, you may use the Software only with the consent and supervision of a parent or guardian who accepts this Agreement on your behalf and remains responsible for your use of it. The Software is not intended for and may not be used by children under 13.
Territory. The Software is currently offered for sale only to purchasers in the United States. We do not presently offer it for sale outside the United States, and a purchase attempted from outside it may be refused or refunded. This restriction is temporary and will be lifted once international sales are handled by our merchant of record.
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the Software on the number of devices permitted by your purchased plan, subject to this Agreement and to online activation. One live activation per license key is enforced: the Software must contact our activation server to run, and a key already live on another device will be refused.
You may not: (a) resell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute the Software or your license key; (b) reverse engineer, decompile, or circumvent the licensing/activation system except where that restriction is prohibited by law; (c) use the Software to violate any third-party platform's terms (e.g. Twitch, TikTok, YouTube, Kick) or any applicable law; (d) remove or alter proprietary notices; (e) use the Software to cause effects on a machine, display, or account you do not control.
The Software is licensed, not sold. We retain all right, title, and interest in the Software, including all intellectual property. Third-party open-source components are governed by their own licenses.
The Software requires an internet connection for activation and periodic license heartbeats; it will lock if it cannot validate the license, if the license is revoked, or if the seat is claimed by another device. We may provide updates at our discretion; some may be required for continued use. Updates are installed with administrator privileges and may replace program files on your system; the Software verifies an update's digital signature before running it. You may decline an update by not installing it, in which case continued use may not be available.
The Software makes real, OS-level changes to your computer while it runs. By installing it you expressly consent to it doing so. Specifically, it may:
These changes are the product, not a side effect. Effects are time-limited and the Software restores what it changed when an effect ends or when you quit it cleanly. A crash, forced termination, or power loss may leave a change in place — including altered input mappings or display settings. You accept that risk and are responsible for restoring your own system if that occurs. Quitting from the tray icon performs a clean restore; killing the process does not.
Do not use the Software on a machine where an unexpected input change or screen obstruction could cause harm, loss, or a safety hazard.
The Software is designed to let third parties — your chat, your viewers, or any tool you connect — trigger effects on your machine.
Purchases are processed by our payment provider, whose own terms and privacy notice apply to the payment itself and from whom your receipt and payment records come. We never receive your card details. A license is refundable within 14 days of purchase, for any reason — you do not need to have found a fault. Email us at the address in section 15 from the address you bought with and we will approve it within two business days. The full policy, including how long the money takes to reach you, is at https://streamwreck.com/refund and forms part of this Agreement. Refunds and chargebacks result in the license key being revoked and the Software locking.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. The Software applies real OS-level effects (key remaps, display rotation, screen filters, audio routing, virtual camera). You are responsible for using it only on hardware and accounts you control, and only in single-player or otherwise permitted contexts. We are not responsible for game bans, anti-cheat actions, competitive-integrity penalties, lost progress, or hardware/OS misconfiguration.
You acknowledge that the Software intentionally interferes with your display, your input devices, and your audio, and that this is its purpose. You knowingly and voluntarily assume all risk arising from that interference, including but not limited to: seizure or photosensitive reaction (section 0), disorientation or motion discomfort, inability to see or control your machine while an effect is active, loss of in-game progress or competitive standing, platform enforcement action, and any change left in place by an unclean shutdown.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SOFTWARE. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
Our full Privacy Notice is at <https://streamwreck.com/privacy> and is the canonical statement of what we do with personal data. Where it is more specific than this section, it controls. It sets out the legal basis for each use, who else receives data, where it is stored, and the full list of your rights including the right to complain to a supervisory authority. In summary:
To operate licensing we store: your license key, a hardware fingerprint of the device it is activated on, activation and heartbeat timestamps, and — where the merchant of record supplies it — the email address associated with your purchase. We never receive your card details: those go to the merchant of record and its payment processors, not to us.
We also process the IP address your device connects to our activation server from, to detect one key being used on two machines at once and to rate-limit abuse. For activation it is not retained in readable form. If you start a free trial we additionally keep a one-way hash of your IP address and network block, and an approximate location (country, region, city), so that one free trial per person means something. We never keep the address itself. See the Privacy Notice for the full detail.
We use all of this only to enforce one-activation-per-key, to support you, and to process refunds. We do not sell it, and we do not use it for advertising or profiling.
Retention. We keep license records for as long as the license is active and for up to 24 months after it lapses, is refunded, or is revoked, after which we delete or anonymize them. Operational logs are kept for a shorter period in the ordinary course of running the service.
To request access to, correction of, or deletion of your record, contact us at section 15; deleting an active license record will deactivate the license. The Privacy Notice above lists every right available to you and how to exercise it.
This license terminates automatically if you breach it, or on refund, chargeback, or revocation. On termination you must stop using and uninstall the Software.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.
Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions stay in full force. In particular, the disclaimers, assumption of risk, and limitation of liability in sections 9 through 11 are each intended to be independent of the others.
Nothing in this Agreement limits any right you have under mandatory consumer-protection law that cannot lawfully be waived.
Entire agreement. This Agreement is the entire agreement between you and us about the Software and supersedes any prior understanding. You may not assign it; we may assign it in connection with a transfer of the Software.
Andrew McGraw · 8mcgraw@gmail.com